concrete truly is incredibly versatile; it can make almost any building ugly as fucking shit

looks alright to be fair

ted chiang, the story of your life

http://www.ime.usp.br/~jstern/miscel…

"but it does make you work harder " exactly. whats the opposite of working hard? laziness. not something we like.

to be honest, i think theres truth in that; Alien and Aliens were made on horrendously tight budgets but it inspired more creativity, not less...

they couldve both done with some more laughs tho. I laughed in evil glee when the first Muto went on the rampage, and quite a few times afterward, but there want much in the way of wit or levity. a missed opportunity i think. there were lots of jokes in those other monster summer hits, Jaws and Jurassic Park, and…

This is a good point. 12 year old me literally wept and cheered at the screen watching Independence Day on my birthday (July 10) in a packed theatre. I know that kid would have shit his little pants over both PRim and Big G. So I give them a pass. Adult me thought they were both pretty boring and had to get very drunk…

agreed.

my god that guy is the blandest drink of fat-free nothing ever, its like he was barely there.

"We get a few minutes at the beginning of the movie that establish how the world had been destroyed by giant monsters, and all the ways humans had tried to fight them. "

Yeah that bit was cool. Really really cool. The giant corpses, the monsterous skeleton on the aircraft carrier, the massive effort to build walls…

Its a battery, you charge it by pumping water up the hill when electricity is cheap, and releasing it when its in high demand like when everyone comes home from work and flicks on the TV. it doesnt make electricity it stores it as potential energy then extracts most of it again when the water falls back down.

sick soundsystem bruvs

that picture just broke my brain

I keep almost buying an Avantime... soon my pretty, soon

My god. That is a beautiful thing.

I did not hit her! It's not true! It's bullshit! I did not! Oh hi Mark!

itd be crazy fun to take over a not very good show and just go nuts with it with not that much to lose. take some risks. make it hardcore. make it funny. be a laugh i reckon.

Rick is a great example of a smart scientist (sort of) hero, and Rick and Morty is by far my favourite SF Tv show on at the moment. All themMorty's on evil Rick's tree of pain? thats some scary shit.